What the Google folks did, as you probably saw, they choose words that would never be issued by a human, a bunch of gobbledygook basically, and then they artificially ranked those pages they indicated highly in the Google index, so they basically...
Google Wins Clickfraud Case in Court In a click fraud case filed against Google in Pennsylvania by one of the 556 plaintiffs that opted out of the July 2006 class-action settlement, Google won a victory not on any click fraud-related grounds, but...
The Google Blog just posted a report on how they feel some of the independent third party click fraud reports published are exaggerating the clickfraud numbers. Google Webmaster Central; Yahoo's expanded Site Explorer tools; Google pushes back...
Yahoo & Google Commit To An Other Independent Click Fraud Audit At SESDonna Bogatin snagged both John Slade, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google Trust & Safety into agreeing to an other clickfraud audit.
Donna Bogatin snagged both John Slade, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google Trust & Safety into agreeing to an other clickfraud audit. This commitment is for an IAB "independent auditing against the complete guidelines.
The Google Blog just posted a report on how they feel some of the independent third party click fraud reports published are exaggerating the clickfraud numbers. Google says they have seen some reports that show "1.5 times the number of clicks in...
Yahoo Settles Clickfraud Lawsuit A California judge has approved Yahoo's proposed settlement of a class action click fraud case brought against the company by Checkmate Strategic Group in June 2005. If you're not familiar with our blog, click on...
Yahoo Settles Clickfraud Lawsuit From The SEW Blog. Google AdWords Adds Statistics Tabs I just discovered that Google has updated their AdWords campaigns interface to include "account statistics tabs.
A California judge has approved Yahoo's proposed settlement of a class action click fraud case brought against the company by Checkmate Strategic Group in June 2005. Yahoo believes the settlement will cover all click fraud claims that have been...
Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined, Blog Maverick (Mark Cuban states fairly obvious points in an over-simplistic manner) I'll get to what's new in MyWeb shortly, but let's first zoom outward for some perspective and review the...
ClickFraud is far greater than imagined, Blog Maverick (Mark Cuban states fairly obvious points in an over-simplistic manner) From The SEW Blog. Windows Live Mail's Active Search: Gmail-Like Contextual Ads Next To Your Mail
Daily SearchCast, June 1, 2006: New Online Ad Spending Record, Offline Print Ads Disappoint, Ask Debuts Impressive Blog Search, Clickfraud, the Google settlement and much Other Submission Systems Remain Independent
Listen in as we talk about clickfraud, the Google settlement and much more! Today's search podcast covers record new online ad spending while offline print ads disappoint, Ask launches impressive blog search with preview feature, a new AdSense API...
Pollard and attorney Shawn Khorrami have created a website, http://www.clickfraud-legal-center.com/ that includes a sample opt out letter for advertisers. For further information on the Google settlement and advertiser options, advertisers can go...
By now, most are familiar with the infamous Geico case, France's penchant for protecting brand names and the pending clickfraud case. What do you do when someone is playing fast and loose with your intellectual property online?
Search Ads: Clickfraud section of Search Engine Watch for SEW members will take you back among them for literally years. How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet from Wired delivers unto us Yet Another
Google CFO declared clickfraud being a big threat a year ago. About the AOL announcement from Google vice president of search products banners," which means those horizontal ads typically at the bottom of the page that many learned to ignore...
Small Business Owner Says He Lost $500,000 Due to Click Fraud with a case study of alleged clickfraud involving karaoke merchants, a case apparently about to be filed. Today's search podcast covers Mamma seeking again to buy Copernic, Mark Cuban...
Time for another clickfraud round-up. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. If you're not familiar with our blog, click on any of the links below, or visit the blog's home...
Time for another clickfraud round-up. Click fraud (I prefer clickfraud as a single word, but I've lost that battle) is estimated from being a low percentage of clicks (say the major search engines) to 20 percent of clicks or higher (so split the...
